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Today, you can secure your copy of Just Love, available at Amazon. In a few weeks, we will have copies available through Lifestream so people can order bulk quantities at significantly reduced costs for those who want to share with friends or host a book study. Here’s my invitation:

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We had a few advance readers take an advance look at Just Love, and here’s what they said about it:

The most significant book on theology I have read in the past 30 years. This book offers insights in why faith gets stuck in a perpetual cycle of not righteous enough or far too righteous. These issues in this slender volume have the deepest roots and the most profound consequences. A great read for anyone who hopes for a better tomorrow.
—Ron Vincent, retired high school teacher in California

Stunning! Absolutely life-changing! Not since Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the door of the Church or the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the turn of the century has there been such an important rediscovery of truth. It’s amazing how one unfortunate mistranslation of an essential part of the Gospel can be so breath-takingly simple and yet so transformative. This changes everything!
—Brad Cummings, co-author, publisher, and movie producer of The Shack

I could barely make it past the first page before I was overcome with emotion. From the very beginning, the presence of Abba’s heart is unmistakable—woven into every word with tenderness, truth, and divine intention. This book didn’t just move me; I was undone in the most beautiful and transformative way. It reached places in my heart I didn’t even realize were waiting to be touched, leaving me both humbled and profoundly changed. This is not just a book you read—it’s an encounter you experience. I whole- heartedly give it a 15 out of 10.
—Daron Maughon, musician in Nashville

A phenomenal read—justice written on our hearts! Perhaps the most important book written for our time. The reality of justice found within properly understood love resets Scripture to its original intent, revealing the purpose and trajectory of love, justice, and the Kingdom of God.
—Mike Rea, title agent in Florida

Just Love beautifully expresses the transforming power of love, a love so personal and metamorphic that it brings actualized justice and “expresses the kingdom of God” in this messy world. When I read that God “is the most endearing presence in the universe and the ultimate source of our provision,” I wanted that truth to sink so deeply in my mind and soul that I would never forget it.
—Tracy Levinson, former atheist and author of Unashamed-Candid Conversations about Dating, Love, Nakedness, and Faith

A most helpful, readable, wonderful book, providing a refreshing look at what it means to be a Christ-follower in this age of religious overdrive. You thought you knew it, but in Just Love, Wayne and Tobie offer eye-opening insight into the layers of God’s justice and love. No more faith in our religious performance, traditions, or personal piety. We can come with arms wide open to a God who has loved us from the start and place our faith in His just, life-giving hands.
—Dr. Stephanie Bennett, communication professor and author of Within the Walls, and Relationships on the Run

Just Love is at times a scholarly lexicography, and at others a thought-provoking personal journey of two men. Many paragraphs beckoned long pondering. Love within us is Christ’s call to us. Blessed are we to be loved and love. Thank you, Wayne and Tobie, for further reasons to let God lead our ways.
—Marty Beert, former school district superintendent

I’ve no doubt Just Love is God’s call today to the Body of Christ. The Reformation was a response to radical shifts in politics, tech-nology, and access to information when the Body of Christ had moved away from the heart of the Gospel. Just Love brings the same invitation to us in similar circumstances. It both confronts those who have abused power and need to be humbled, and it lifts up those who have labored under oppression. This is an invitation back to our roots—to the love we need to receive from God, and then how that love flows through us to the world.
—Tom Stephen, pastor, Monte Vista Presbyterian

In He Loves Me, you helped to define love. In Just Love, you redefine the justness of Father, and how the fullness of his love lets us share his passion for justice. I am soaking up this book. It is thrilling to read, but it’s messing with me. I cannot get past the statement, “Established by a ruler-king yet to come, his kingdom would not be predicated on the justice of a written law but the justness of love!”
—Jack S., retired pastor in South Carolina

Concise, easy to read, and soaked in love, Just Love is a significant work with a transformative message. By replacing ‘righteousness’ with ‘justice’ in our English translations, Scripture becomes so much more accurate, understandable and life-giving. Why all this is true is the reason you will want to read this book. Wayne and Tobie brilliantly attest that becoming morally perfect is not the goal of the Christian life, but rather it is about embracing God’s love—and when you do that you naturally become a vessel of God’s love and justice in the world.
—Sean Kennedy, author of Church Uncorked: Leadership That Releases Our Potential

Just Love is as timely and potent as anything I could imagine. Its resounding message of personal righteousness vs. justice for all our neighbors is akin to an asteroid hitting the planet. I’m not sure there’s been a more important spiritual discovery during my time on this earth. Prepare to be challenged and hopefully, changed. This is the book that each and every Christian needs to read and ponder. And it might very well be what your heart and spirit have been longing for your entire life.
—Bob Prater, co-author of A Language of Healing for a Polarized Nation

This little book is so good; it’s an invitation to a lifelong exploration in the best and most transformative way—to encounter the love of God and to be changed from the inside out. Living within this love, I am becoming a woman who is willing to be in the mess of life, not having to fix everything, but to have the courage to let him meet me, hold me, and change me even through heartache. And living this way, God will invite others through us into this sacred way.
—Dana Andreychen, poet and mother

This is far more than an explanation of how “righteousness” in the New Testament is actually “justice.” It is a call to live justly, to move from the idea that we can be “righteous in God’s eyes” and still hate our enemies. It charges us to love as we are loved, to be just because He is just. Treating others as you would like to be treated is Jesus’ definition of justice. It reflects Father’s unconditional love for us. Justice is a call to action. Righteousness is the state of being that results from being just. Justice comes first.
—Phil Hinton, vascular surgeon

If you only read one book this year, make it this one! This book uncovers and clarifies a truth your soul needs! Just Love is a key that unlocked areas of my spiritual journey and practical living while simultaneously giving me a new way to hear God throughout the Bible. Buy a few copies; you’re going to want to give some away so others will understand what you’ll soon be unable to stop talking about!
—Samantha Schmeltzer, mother and entrepreneur

Love is the living fountain within us, and justice is its overflow. Humanity needs to wake up to this. To live in Just Love is a high calling, offering each reader the quiet, supernatural work that opens a human heart. Approach these pages the way Paul prayed for the Ephesian believers, “that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened… that you may know the love of Christ which passes knowledge.” This little book is best received with deep humility, seeking revelation and surrender to the love of a Father who is love. In that posture, something lasting can happen, not inspiration that fades, but transformation that settles into bone and breath. —Dr Stephan Vosloo, occupational medical practitioner

We are printing copies now and will offer bulk discounts on Lifestream when they arrive, hopefully by the end of the month. We do not have an audio version of this book available now, but we will be putting one together in the next couple of months.

Just Love:
How One Mistranslated Word Distorted the Gospel
by Wayne Jacobsen and *Tobie van der Westhuizen
174 pages
Trailview Media
Available from Amazon, Tuesday, March 3
in Kindle ($10.99)
or in Paperback ($16.99)

*Tobie, Wayne’s coauthor, is a former pastor and holds a PhD in Higher Education. In addition to his work overseeing a private school in Bloemfontein, SA, he writes at JusticeofGod.com and answers questions on the Bible and spiritual matters at quora.com/profile/Tobie-28.

Hear Wayne, Tobie, and Kyle discuss their new book on the most recent edition of The God Journey.